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Coral clues to climate: Reefs vanished for 2,500 years

July 5, 2012

Coral reefs along Panama’s Pacific coast com­pletely col­lapsed for 2,500 years due to nat­ural cli­mate cycles, researchers reported in a study Thursday, adding that there’s a lesson in the data for man-​​made cli­mate change: ease up on green­house gasses and reefs will restore themselves.

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